Anya Taylor-Joyhas a scorching post-apocalyptic adventure on the horizon.
According to a press release, the film is a “standalone action adventure that will reveal the origins of” Furiosa.
After she finished filming the project in Australia, Taylor-Joy, 27, toldIndieWirein November 2022 about making theMad Maxinstallment.
“I’ve been on a different planet for the last seven months. I think I need to sit down and attempt to try and digest what’s happened over the last seven months,” she said at the time.
Chris Hemsworth in “Furiosa” (2024).JASIN BOLAND
JASIN BOLAND
“But I’m incredibly, incredibly proud of it, and so proud of all of the people I got to work with, and just the amount of love and effort and work that went into it. I’m excited to see it.”
She joked that starring inFuriosamarked the “dirtiest and the bloodiest I have ever been," for a movie, “which is saying something, genuinely saying something.”
Anya Taylor-Joy in “Furiosa” (2024).Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
“Any time I get to be dirty or bloody and not perfectly prim and pretty, I’m just having a ball, that’s where I feel most comfortable. So yeah,Furiosawas definitely right up my street," said theSplitactress.
Mel Gibson starred in threeMad Maxmovies: 1979’s original, 1981’sThe Road Warriorand 1985’sBeyond Thunderdome. Tom Hardy starred opposite Theron in 2015’sFury Road, which won six Oscars in 2016 and was nominated for Best Picture.
“Furiosa” (2024).Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
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After news of his casting back in October 2020, Hemsworth, 40,wroteon Instagram that he was “pretty damn fired up to be a part of a franchisethat meant the world to me as a kid growing up in Australia.”
Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagais in theaters May 24.
source: people.com
